A sexual assault activist who spoke to Baylor football this summer said a coaching staff member was "angry and defensive" during a conversation after her speech.

In a column for the Huffington Post, Brenda Tracy said a coaching staff member pulled her aside after she talked to the very attentive, respectful group of athletes.

"He was obviously very angry and defensive about what was happening," Tracy wrote. "I was shocked by what he was saying. He knew that I had a voice in the media and he was doing nothing but making Baylor look guilty and he was validating for me that the football culture and that all the claims being made against them and Art Briles were probably true."

Briles was fired following a third-party investigation asserting Baylor's football team mishandled sexual assault cases. Tracy spoke with Baylor about being raped by Oregon State football players in 1998 after which no charges were filed.

Following the meeting, Tracy said she met with a Baylor administrative official and interim coach Jim Grobe about the assistant's encounter. She said she didn't mention the meeting until now because she didn't want to "shift the focus from the young men on the football team who wanted to be part of the solution," she said.

"I wanted to support them I recognize there are young men who are innocent on this team. There are men on this team that are unjustly suffering from the decisions of their administration - and that's not OK. I also recognize that this issue is not isolated to the football team - this is a campus wide institutional issue..."

Baylor's athletic department released a statement on Friday night, before the 13th-ranked Bears (4-0, 1-0) face Iowa State (1-3, 0-1) on Saturday.

"We are looking into the conversation that Brenda Tracy had with a member of our football staff," the statement said. "We have great respect for the work she is doing and for her courage in telling her story. Her interaction with the young men on our football team was incredibly positive and we are grateful for her engagement with our university."

At Big 12 media days in July, Baylor interim president David Garland defended Briles' assistant coaches.

"What was done was not pernicious," Garland said. "These are good men. These are honorable men, and we need to give them better support through the Title IX program."

Tracy, too, said after her July visit that meeting with Grobe was productive.

"He just listened to everything I had to say," Tracy said. "I really think he took it in. I think a lot of light bulbs went off for him, and I think he took it seriously."

Tracy's column for the Huffington Post comes as Briles' name is circulating as a candidate to coach again - a move Tracy is adamantly against.

"Until new information comes out exonerating his involvement then I am strongly against him coaching anywhere else," Tracy wrote.